The authoress discusses recent research trends in the field of library anxiety and provides their exemplifications. Polish achievements in the field are noticed. Attention is drawn to incoming research initiatives. Finally, solutions for coping with library anxiety are presented.
The article describes current research on library anxiety with reference to Polish and English studies and literature of that subject. The theory and principles of library anxiety have been presented, followed by the discussion of research conducted in the field by C. Mellon, S. Bostick, A. Onwuegbuzie and Q. Jiao. Five models of library anxiety have been specified as presented in the book 'Library anxiety: theory, research, and applications' (2004), which provides the most comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon in the literature of the field
Libraries have always been treasuries of well-organized, easily accessed knowledge. Tools used for that purpose - library catalogs, systems for content description and structured metadata - are extremely valuable in the case of traditional libraries storing non-virtual, non-digital publications. When the content is put in the digital form, the tools in question become ineffective and, very often, useless to many library users. It results from the fact that contemporary full-text search and retrieval systems enable users to obtain information not only from the descriptions but also from the entire content of the documents. It means that all effort put into the construction and development of controlled library catalogs may soon become unnecessary.
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